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The Complicated Legacy of Modernist Minoru Yamasaki, Architect of World Trade Center

Avatar photo by Sophia Stewart November 28, 2021November 29, 2021

Yamasaki’s most well-known projects — the twin towers and the Pruit-Igoe housing project — were both destroyed on national television.

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A History of Motherhood Through Design

Avatar photo by Karen Chernick October 10, 2021October 8, 2021

Designing Motherhood includes over 100 objects spanning medical devices to depictions of laboring women in films.

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How Black Artists Are Shaping a Distinctly Black Gaze

Avatar photo by Tina M. Campt August 22, 2021August 20, 2021

Cultural and artistic icons are reshaping the circulation of Blackness on a global scale.

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The Stunning Scope of Carrie Mae Weems’s Vision

Avatar photo by Allison Conner July 25, 2021July 23, 2021

A new book offers a deep dive into Weems’s influential career.

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A Deep, Feminist Dive Into Autotheory

Avatar photo by Rea McNamara June 20, 2021November 1, 2021

Lauren Fournier considers what it means, in the bell hooks sense, to bring everyday life to theory.

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Where Does a Work of Art Belong?

by David Carrier September 5, 2020November 5, 2020

Like the international financial markets, the art museum is a controlling Western institution.

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Gabriel Orozco’s Journals Invite Readers to Retrace His Steps

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia May 21, 2020

What makes Written Matter different from some artists’ journals is that one need not be familiar with Orozco — or even the legacy of Conceptualism to which his work is tethered — to enjoy it.

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Ana Mendieta, a Feminist Pioneer, in a New Light

by Ela Bittencourt April 3, 2020April 3, 2020

In Radical Virtuosity, Genevieve Hyacinthe brilliantly reframes Mendieta’s celebrated works, yet for a book so rooted in race, the final analysis feels only half-full.

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“Why Is Television Dumb?” and Other Musings by Nam June Paik

by Ryan Wong October 24, 2019October 24, 2019

In the recently published collection We Are in Open Circuits, Paik’s prescient critiques of image consumption suggest he probably would’ve been great at Twitter.

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Elizabeth Otto Unlocks History in Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics

MIT Press logo by MIT Press October 17, 2019October 17, 2019

Her recent book offers an investigation of the irrational and the unconventional currents swirling behind the Bauhaus’s signature sleek surfaces and austere structures.

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The Liberating Power of Conversations About Art

by David Carrier September 14, 2019September 16, 2019

When I got to know Bill Berkson, my life as a writer was completely changed.

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The Horrors of the Atomic Age Through Artists’ Eyes

by Clayton Schuster September 13, 2019September 24, 2019

The art and literature in Invisible Colors turn our gaze toward the blinding fury of the atom’s explosion in its singular purpose to raze and slaughter.

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